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Spot NewsVOLUME 17, NO. 4 JANUARY 2011
A publication of the East Tennessee chapterof the Society of Professional Journalists
http://etspj.org
Members of the Republican Party
will dominate the guest table at the
ETSPJ Legislative Preview Lun-
cheon on Saturday, Jan. 29, in
Knoxville. Of 16 state senators and
representatives who have been
invited from Knox and nearby
counties, only two are Democrats.
How will this translate into their
representation of the area in the
107th General Assembly? What
issues will they see as priorities,
and which would they be willing to
put on the back burner, by prefer-
ence or for economic reasons?
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Annual luncheon letspublic, media quiz
senators, reps
Come to the luncheon to see what
these 15 men and one woman have
to say -- and ask your own ques-
tions, if you wish.
Don Dare, reporter and WATE-
TV anchor, will moderate.
The event will be at Calhouns onBearden Hill, 6615 Kingston Pike,
Knoxville, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
with mixing among citizens, news
media representatives and legisla-
tors. Anyone may attend. A buffet
meal will begin at noon. The
program will get under way around
12:30 p.m.
You may attend and not eat, but
those who want the buffet meal,
$15 per person, must make reserva-
tions with Elenora E. Edwards,
ETSPJ president and chairman of
the Professional Development
Committee, at 865-457-5459, 385-
4424 or [email protected].
Reservations deadline is 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 26.
Feb. 4 is deadline for Golden Press Card AwardsThe East Tennessee Society of
Professional Journalists still is
accepting entries for its 2010
Golden Press Card Awards Contest.
This year weve simplified the
electronic entry process with a form
that you can either submit online or
print to mail or drop off entries.
You can pay online as well.
Weve also made some category
changes, and there are plenty of
options for print, broadcast or
online journalists, whether youre
with a media organization or on
your own.
Find the details and entry form
at http://
goldenpresscard.wordpress.com/.
Current members of SPJ get one
entry free. Additional entries for
members, and all non-memberentries, will cost $20.
All work must have appeared
during the 2010 calendar year.
Deadline for entry is Feb. 4, 2011.
Winners will be announced at our
awards banquet, Friday, April 29, at
the L&N Station.
Info: Kristi Nelson, 865-342-
6434 or [email protected].
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Social media and ethics speakers
leave journalists with links
James Pilcher, business reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Jack
Greiner, full-time lawyer for the Cincinnati/Kentucky Enquirer, and
a partner at the Cincinnati firm Graydon Head, talk about how jour-
nalists use social media. The Nov. 8 program at the Knoxville News
Sentinel drew both journalists and students.
Cincinnati Enquirer business
reporter James Pilcher and Enquirerlawyer Jack Greiner had a lot to say
about how journalists can still
apply traditional ethical standards
to social media platforms.
The duo updated journalists and
students about the convergence of
new social media tools with corner-
stone journalism standards at a
Nov. 18 ETSPJ program, opening a
discussion of how social media is
and should be used by journalists --
and how that might differ from how
its used by the general public.
Later, Pilcher provided a list of
links to sites and ideas mentioned
in or related to the November
presentation.
Jacks blog:http://www.graydonhead.com/index.php?option=com_
content&view=category &layout=blog&id=44&Itemid=211
James blog entry on this subject
for SPJ Net Worked digital commit-tee blog:http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/tech/
?p=1737
Ron Sylvester, court reporter fromWichita Eagle, twitter site:http://twitter.com/#!/rsylvester
Kimball Perry, court reporter fromCincy Enquirer, twitter site:http://twitter.com/kimballperry
ESPNs Bill Simmons column on
Randy Moss scoop:http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/
101013&sportCat=nfl
James Pilcher twitter feed:http://twitter.com/#!/jamespilcher
Jack Greiner twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/jackgraydon
Chicago Tribunes Colonel Tribunetwitter site:
http://twitter.com/#!/ColonelTribune
Twapper Keeper archive of#spjchat:
Mandy Jenkins social media ethics
guide:http://zombiejournalism.com/2010/06/social-media-guidelines-to-live-by/
Gawker ethics for social media
recommendations:http://gawker.com/5687490/new-rules-for-media-ethics
Australian Broadcasting Company
guidelines:
http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2009/journalists-use-of-social-media/
CJR story on tweeting a wildfire:http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/tweeting_a_wildfire.php?page=all
Steve Buttry of TBD update to SPJ
Code of Ethics:http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/
2010/11/07/journalists-code-of-ethics-time-for-an-update/
And last, but not least: SPJ Code ofEthics:
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
http://www.twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/spjchat?sm=&sd=&sy=&em=&ed =&ey=&o=
&l=500&from_user=&text=&lang=
If youre using a program that
does not allow you to click on these
hyperlinks in the PDF edition of
Spot News, you can e-mail Kristi
Nelson, [email protected],
to have a hyperlink list sent to you.
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Center for
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Law School for Journalists setFirst of its kind in East TN, conference aims to improve
understanding, dialogue among government, media
On Friday, April 1, East
Tennessee Society ofProfessional Journalists is
proud to present Justice,
Media and the Peoples
Right to Know: Inherent
Tensions and Practical
Implications in a Free
Society, an all-day
conference exploring
ways that journalists and
public officials can better
inform the public to build
trust and confidence in
two institutions important
to a democracy: govern-
ment and a free press.
Journalists, law en-
forcement officials, court
personnel, government
records custodians who
interact with journalists
and other citizens, and thegeneral public are invited
to attend the law school
at the Howard H. Baker
Jr. Center for Public
Policy, 1640 Cumberland
Ave., which is co-spon-
sor.
Pulitzer Prize-winner
Alex Jones, a native East
Tennessean and now
director of the JoanShorenstein Center on the
Press, Politics and Public
Policy at Harvard Univer-
sity, will be the keynote
speaker. Jones covered
the press for The New
York Times from 1983-92
and was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
Other speakers andpanelists include experts
in law enforcement,
criminal and civil court
procedures, Tennessee
laws on open meetings
and records and experi-
enced journalists who
cover governmental
affairs.
The overall goal of the
conference is to promote
public trust and confi-
dence in two institutions
important to a democracy:
government and a free
press.
To that end, the pro-
gram will:
provide training for
journalists who cover
police, courts and othergovernment offices or
tackle any story that can
be enhanced by access to
public records and meet-
ings.
promote a discussion
among journalists, gov-
ernment officials and
other citizens to explore
ways to advance the
publics understandingtheir communities and the
respective roles of the
media and government.
The format for the
conference will be a 30-
to 45-minute overview
about each of four topics:
criminal procedure,
criminal courts, civil
courts and access to
meetings and records.Experts in each area will
teach these instructional
sessions.
Following each teach-
ing session two or three
panelists will discuss
ways that the media and
government agencies
might work together to
improve the quality ofinformation reaching the
public. Questions and
comments from the
audience will be encour-
aged.
Programs like this have
been met with great
success in Nashville and
Memphis, but this is the
first time one has been
planned for East Tennes-see.
Thanks to the generos-
ity of our sponsors and
underwriters, this confer-
ence, including a conti-
nental breakfast and lunch
is free to all attendees
who register before
March 25.
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2406 Belt Road
Knoxville, TN 37920
SPJs board of directors voted
Jan. 14 to retire the Helen ThomasLifetime Achievement Award.
The Society will not give out anaward for lifetime achievement.The action does not rename the
award or remove Thomas name.Both the board of directors and
the executive committee heardfrom many people inside andoutside of SPJs membership andjournalism.
A prominent objection to taking
any action was that of HelenThomas free speech rights. SPJstaunchly believes Helen Thomasand all people in the United States
have a right to free speech. TheSociety defends that fundamental
legal right as a core organizationalmission, even when the speech isunpopular, vile or consideredoffensive.
However, the controversy sur-rounding this award has overshad-
owed the reason it exists. Tocontinue offering the award would
reignite the controversy each yearand take away from its purpose:honoring a lifetime of work injournalism. No individual worthyof such honor should have to facethis controversy. No honoree
should have to decide if the pos-sible backlash is worth beingrecognized for his or her contribu-tion to journalism.
SPJ initiated the award in 2000.Helen Thomas was the originalrecipient, and this decision by theboard will not impact that honor orsubsequent honorees.
The Jan. 8 executive committeemeeting marked the second time in
nearly six months the committeeconsidered removing Thomasname, stemming from an incidentearlier in 2010 when the longtimeWhite House reporter and colum-nist commented to a rabbi on videothat Jews in Palestine should gohome.
Thomas drew widespread criti-cism after the video was posted
Amid controversy, SPJ retires Helen Thomas awardonline, and she later resigned herjob as a Hearst Newspapers colum-nist. The executive committee
considered removing Thomasname during a July meeting but didnot, noting it was a one-time,
spontaneous remark for which sheapologized.
In December, Thomas reiteratedher previous comments before aspeech in Dearborn, Mich. TheDetroit News quoted her at the timeas saying, Congress, the WhiteHouse and Hollywood, Wall Streetare owned by the Zionists. Noquestion.
After the speech and follow-up
news reports, calls again includ-ing from inside SPJ came for SPJto remove Thomas name from theaward. The executive committeeplaced the item on the agenda forthe already scheduled Jan. 8 meet-ing and collected a wide range ofletters and e-mails both supportingand opposing removing Thomasname from the award.